I'm baaackkk with Pesto Squoodles & Weekend Recapsss!

Oh hey yall! Remember me? I used to blog here until Wedding/Binge Drinking Tour 2014 took its toll and I slept for a few days then hopped on a plane for ATL for my college BFF's wedding. If you followed on Instagram you saw how awesome and beautiful this wedding was, but just in case you don't I'll photo dump below haaa.

I gotta confess, I have been eating about as dirty and eating can get. And not exercising. But I guess a cool thing about being this age is that when I realized my clothes fit differently there was no meltdown or anything, I was like "welp that's what happens, I've pulled it together once I can pull it together again!"

So here I am trying to pull it together. This is the squasta with homemade pesto:

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins (for the sausages)
Servings: 3

Ingredients:

• 2 Squashes (squashi? squash?) ($3.00), sliced into "squoodles" with the mandolin or knife
• 4 clean chicken sausages (I use Al Fresco from Wal Mart) ($5.00)
• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced ($1.50)
• 2 large tomatoes, diced ($2.00)
• 1/2 onion, sliced ($.50)

For the pesto:

• 2 cups fresh basil 
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/3 cup fresh parmesan

Cook your squoodles. Cook the sausage as according to the package (I grilled mine) and slice into bite size pieces. Saute the onion slices for about 5 minutes, then add in the mushrooms for another 3 minutes. The mushroom/onion concoction with tomatoes and sausage.

Combine all the ingredients for the pesto in a blender or food processor. I use the $20 Oster 6706 6-Cup Plastic Jar 10-Speed Blender from Amazon and blend until saucey.

Toss all the ingredients together and enjoy!

And now for my weekend photo dump:

Before I left for ATL I went to an ON POINT happy hour at 14K! Look at all this delicious food! I had DUCK TACOS. YES.

Said bye to Andi and hit the road (skies?) for ATL!!

The first night we went to Sweetwater Brewery where you pay $10 for 6 beers. SAY WHAT? I loovvvve the 420 and the summer blueberry beer (Nadine help me out- what is that called? I know you know!)

The best man sported this all weekend:

Rehearsal dined at Wahoo Grill in Decatur (YUM) and I died over this groom's cake. Can I have Andi as a wedding topper for my cake?

Hair appointments started at 7:30. We are so fortunate that the groom's mom lives right by the church in a beautiful condo:

We took pix at Piedmont Park and could not have asked for a more beautiful day! This is the only picture I could find from the photoshoot (the groom got all his groomsmen matching undies that have a zipper pocket for a flask):

I successfully did my own hair thanks to this youtube tutorial (any other curly haired people out there HATE getting their hair done because they always straighten it and it frizzes out in 5 minutes?):

The reception was held at the Trolley Barn in Decatur. Beautiful.

And we rode around the city for a few hours in a trolley with the wedding party. It was a blast and I want to figure out how to do something like this at my wedding!

So tell me: how do you get back on track after you've fallen waaayyyy off track?